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Set in Harlem and New Orleans in 1955, this supernatural thriller stirred a brief controversy in the US when released in 1987 because some scenes featuring Lisa Bonet (then a popular cast member of The Cosby Show) were considered too sexually explicit to be rated R. The plot follows the fortunes of a sullen detective (Mickey Rourke) who is hired to find a missing person by a shady client with pointy fingernails named Louis Cyphre (Lucifer, get it?), played with subtle menace by Robert De Niro. Rourke's investigation leads him into an underworld of voodoo and forbidden desires, and as the mystery unfolds director Alan Parker fills every scene with conspicuous style and atmospheric excess, compelling critic Pauline Kael to observe that "Parker simply doesn't have the gift of making evil seductive, and he edits like a flasher". And yet, this movie does casts a spell of its own (Roger Ebert's review was considerably more charitable), and the performances of Rourke, De Niro, Bonet and Charlotte Rampling are well suited to the ominous mood. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is one of Alan Parker's best films. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is a private detective hired by a mysterious client (Robert de Niro) to look for a crooner called Johnny Favourite, who disappeared after World War II. As he gets closer to the truth, the people he talks to about Favourite die in horrible ways. The film is like a nightmare: recrurring, unexplained motifs--a whirring fan and an old-fashioned lift going up and down--that are disturbing, but you don't know why. This is not a film for the faint-hearted--be prepared for lots of killing (although most of it is off-screen) and voodoo. There is a twist in the tail that makes you want to go back and watch it again. This is Rourke's best performance ever, as a man who is slowly falling apart.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
A work of genius... atmospheric, gripping, terrifyingly clever. Needs to be watched more than once to pick up on all the subtleties... like Robert de Niro throwing salt over his shoulder before he eats an egg - 'the symbol of the soul'.
Mickey Rourke has made some real duff films but in this he is brilliant, de Niro is as great as he always is and Lisa Bonet smoulders while Courtney Pine's saxophone haunts the film and the great use of lighting, close-ups and camera angles perfects the effects.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This movie carries with it an underlying mood of shear despair that is sustained from beginning to end. It is a film that is underated to say the least and for me the best film of Director Alan Parkers career. An astonishingly fantastic performance by Mickey Rourke in the Lead Role.
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Lacking in both plot and atmosphere the
I struggle to understand the high regard in which many hold this film. I can't quite figure what they see in it, maybe it's an acceptable horror for those of a more nervous... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ash 6.626
heart of the Angel
This is an old favourite of my husband and I.
The film stars Mickey Rourke and Robert Di Nero in a very dark film. It is set in the present or is it? Read more
The film stars Mickey Rourke and Robert Di Nero in a very dark film. It is set in the present or is it? Read more
Published 5 months ago by Margaret White
Atmospheric thriller
Very underrated movie from Alan Parker with a brilliant twist. The book Falling Angel on which it is based is superb also. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Gareth W. Francis
Good movie
The vendor was fine. The film you probably know about already. I can't compare with its SD release, but it seemed fine compared to other blurays.
Published 10 months ago by Paul
The Devil, you say?
Angel Heart is a great premise and a terrific twist in search of a good movie, or at least a better script as Mickey Rourke's lowlife private eye is hired by the Devil to track... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Trevor Willsmer
Wonderful cinematography - fabulous restoration on Blu-ray!
People will likely fall into one of two categories of viewer. There will be those who first saw this film on general release some 24 years ago and fell in love with its... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Nigel Mc
good movie, bad bluray
The movie is just great, no question.
I found the video transfer ok as well, whatever people are saying here. Read more
I found the video transfer ok as well, whatever people are saying here. Read more
Published 17 months ago by F. Vial
Oh yeah...gimme the Voodoo
Another great movie which is seriously almost a decade ahead of its time...brilliant acting by de niro and such nice symbolism. Read more
Published 20 months ago by timeca
average movie
Having never seen this film before i brought this film based on the glowing five star reviews on here, perhaps its me.... Read more
Published 20 months ago by j4mm3r
LOVE the film... but...
I have loved this film since it came out on the big screen. The low rating on this review is for the terrible job that was done copying the DVD. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Brenna Johnston
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